It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.